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Gene Austin & Nathaniel Shilkret - Moonshiner's Daughter

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Maurice Ravel - Ma Mere l'Oye, Troisieme tableau: III. Les entretiens de la belle et de la bete

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Hector Berlioz - Le Roi Lear - overture (Op.4)

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Alexander Tsfasman - Es tut mir Leid

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John Alden Carpenter - Adventures in a Perambulator

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Loudon Wainwright III - You Never Phone (Live)

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Oct 18, 7:23 PM UTC

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Claude Debussy - Children's corner for piano, no.4; The Snow is Dancing

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Oct 18, 7:21 PM UTC

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Claude Debussy - Children's Corner for Piano, No.3; Serenade For The Doll

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Oct 18, 7:18 PM UTC

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Andrew Lloyd Webber - The First Man You Remember (Version 2 / Live)

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Avril Coleridge-Taylor - Can Sorrow Find Me?

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Gene Austin & Nathaniel Shilkret - Moonshiner's Daughter

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Maurice Ravel - Ma Mere l'Oye, Troisieme tableau: III. Les entretiens de la belle et de la bete

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Alexander Tsfasman - Es tut mir Leid

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John Alden Carpenter - Adventures in a Perambulator

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Loudon Wainwright III - You Never Phone (Live)

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Claude Debussy - Children's corner for piano, no.4; The Snow is Dancing

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Claude Debussy - Children's Corner for Piano, No.3; Serenade For The Doll

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Andrew Lloyd Webber - The First Man You Remember (Version 2 / Live)

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Prelude from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, bk.1 no. 1 (BWV.846)

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Giacomo Puccini - O mio babbino caro

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Segun Akinola - On the Shoulders of Aunties and Uncles

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Arnold Bax - Tintagel

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Edward Bairstow - Blessed city, heavenly Salem

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Arvo Pärt - Fratres

1995-04-01

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John Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine

2004-10-17

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Kerensa Briggs - Media Vita

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Steve Reich - Nagoya Marimbas

1998

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Bedrich Smetana - Vltava (Ma Vlast)

1994-08-05

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Thomas Tallis - Spem in alium

2006-01-05

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Samuel Barber - Adagio For Strings

2010-01-18

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BBC Radio 3 is a British radio station operated by the BBC. Its output centres on classical music and opera, but jazz, world music, drama, culture and the arts also feature. The station is the world's most significant commissioner of new music, and through its New Generation Artists scheme promotes young musicians of all nationalities. The station broadcasts the BBC Proms concerts, live and in full, each summer in addition to performances by the BBC Orchestras and Singers. There are regular productions of both classic plays and newly commissioned drama. Radio 3 won the Sony Radio Academy UK Station of the Year Gold Award for 2009 and was nominated again in 2011.

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